AI-Powered Pathways to Open Education: Enhancing Practice and Expanding Discovery

Generative AI is changing how we teach and learn, and this session will show practical ways it can support open education. We will look at two everyday challenges: finding aligned open materials and spotting places in a course where open practices could enhance opportunities for collaborative learning. An instructional designer will demonstrate how custom GPTs can review a syllabus and suggest places where open pedagogy could involve students in co-creating and sharing knowledge. A librarian will show how large language models can help locate courses and syllabi that already use open practices, making it easier for faculty to discover and adopt open materials. The session will include a live demo, and participants will be invited to share their own use cases so the approaches can be adapted on the spot. Participants will leave with prompts to adapt and ideas to bring back to their own courses and campuses.